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Boulder, Weld property owners have until June 3 to appeal new property values

By John FryarLongmont Times-Call

Posted:
05/01/2013 06:38:43 PM MDT

Updated:
05/01/2013 06:40:21 PM MDT

Property valuation appeals

Boulder County

Property owners with questions about the values assigned to their properties may call the assessor's office at 303-441-4830; email bouldercountyassessor.org; send a letter to the Boulder County Assessor's Office, P.O. Box 471, Boulder, CO 80306; or fax the question to 303-441-4996.

Residents may bring their questions or make their appeals in person at:

the Lafayette Community Services Center, 400 E. Simpson St., No. 105 A, Lafayette, where staff will be available from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays to handle residential property value appeals May 13-24 and commercial property value appeals May 14 and May 21.

Lyons' Town Hall, 432 Fifth Ave., Lyons, where the assessor's staff will be available from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May 10.

In-person protests of new property values will be appointment only, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays at the assessor's headquarters office at 1400 N. 17th Ave., Greeley. Call 970-353-3845 to schedule an appointment.

Owners of properties in Weld County who disagree with the values they've been sent can fax their protests to 970-304-6433, or mail them to the Weld County Assessor's Office at 1400 N. 17th Ave., Greeley CO 80631; email them to appeals@co.weld.co.us.

Now that Colorado's county assessors have mailed out their latest estimates of property values, the owners of those properties will have until June 3 to appeal those appraisals.

On Wednesday, county assessors sent new "notices of values" to owners of properties within their counties.

Those notices generally are the result of the assessors' staffs tracking of real estate markets before June 30, 2012, and the actual market values of those properties as of that point.

The new valuations will be the starting point for calculating the local property taxes the properties' owners will have to pay in 2014 and 2015, but people can't use the assessment appeals process to protest their past or projected property tax bills.

They can, however, produce their own information about what they think should be considered when it comes to comparable sales before last June 30, for example, as well as seek corrections of any mistakes they believe the assessors have made in their descriptions of the properties in question.

Property owners may appeal the new valuations of their properties by mail, online, by fax or in person.

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